Welcome to 2015, Long Beach!

Besides hoverboards and flying DeLoreans, what are you folks looking forward to 2015? Long Beach could be going through some major changes this year. Here are a few that I can think of, but please chime in with anything I am missing.

Some sort of medical center opening/reopening

Movie theater reopening so we can all watch Star Wars: Episode VII next December

23 thoughts on “Welcome to 2015, Long Beach!”

The main important thing is a hospital even to set up an Urgent Care Facility anything that will be able to serve the people & that they at least be entitled to some sort of SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM………………

Dozens of flooded houses have been reconstructed and raised. Some have been replaced with new and expensive homes. They are going on the market but virtually none have sold yet. 2015 will tell us if there is a market for these new expensive ($650K +) buildings. That will decide future market values here.

Retail shopping is changing. Fewer retail establishments will weather the Internet transition. More service businesses (restaurants and bars) will open as displaced workers try their hands at business. Same for small franchise operators seeking to “buy themselves jobs”. Most won’t make it.

The Army Corp of Engineers will begin their dune and beach nourishment projects which will get Long Beach some great press as well as some bigger beaches. But it will impact the surfing. New boardwalk walkovers and bathrooms are coming too.

The economy will continue to tank as Washington further inflates the dollar and increases middle class taxes. This may keep more vacationers closer and build beach attendance. The perceived animosity by di Blasio toward working class homeowners may bring those fleeing a hostile and crime-increasing NYC to Long Beach. Look for new hard working homeowners and investors here.

A huge apartment shortage will bring increased interest in rental properties for big investors, and aging owners will be looking to sell.

Lets see what happens. By the end of 2015, we’ll know if Long Beach will grow into an upscale beach town or decline into Sustain-able Long Island’s dream of another welfare abyss.

Jay if you were genuinely concerned about the safety of skaters and the new skatepark, then where the hell have you been for the past how many years to voice concern over the daily safety of pedestrians, skaters and cyclists on our streets? It irritates the piss out of me to hear you use safety concerns like skaters to illustrate your agenda.

I have NO opinion on the firefighter thing and will not comment on that and I have NO problem with you- but I do have a sizable piece of pissed off weighing my shoulder over the lack of concern residents have had for PREVENTING hospital trips and EMS calls. We are all waving our arms in the air over getting a hospital- quite literally suggesting our lives are in danger without one. You know what? My life is in fucking danger everytime I leave my house and bike down Park Ave or cross the street. So you know what- maybe I, too, have an agenda. Its my own selfish need to not die or paralyzed because I want to cross the damn street.

I just cannot take the whole big rallies over firemen and hospitals while noone gives two shits over the hundreds of injuries and dozens of fatalities on our streets. How about a little preventative care that is not laced with an agenda tied to jobs? Not ONE of our civic associations or groups came out in support of reforming speed cameras. Silence, like you could hear a pin drop- meanwhile the LB Needs A Hospital rally cries are loud an clear.

So Jay do not use skater or anyones safety as a weapon in your fight unless you actually mean it.

@box, hold on there partner. What civic association are you a member of? Did you ask your civic president if they signed the letter that was sent to Shila Shah-Gavnoudias, the Commissioner of Nassau County Department of Public Works regarding the speed cameras? Or did you just miss that monthly meeting? And as far as “no one gives two sh#ts over the hundreds of injuries and dozens of fatalities on our streets”, what do you suppose hospitals are for, shoe shines? Maybe people really are concerned about pedestrians and cyclists, and maybe they are concerned about the extra time it now takes to get medical attention, and maybe adding an additional injury risk, albeit fun, activity is just the thing that puts you over the edge and makes you comment on an issue.

I know we’re commenting about Long Beach in particular, however, the new Costco slated to be built in Oceanside (Oil City) will have an effect on supermarkets, cellular service retailers, tire shops, gas stations (they were approved for a gas station), pharmacies, beer distributors, and anyone in Long Beach that sells anything from boogie boards to Babka.

I stewed on this all day and realized I get my panties all caught up there over these things and I do apologize for dismissing any organization or jay. There was definitely some bitterness that just spewed all over the place. Whatever.

Hold up there fellas, weren’t these homes aquired the same way the ones in SI were? In other words, these homes are supposed to be demolished and the land is never to be built upon again. Or were these aquired in and for a different purpose, as indicated above? If so that’s no good and we should all be rebeling against this especially if you live on the same block. How can we find out the addresses of these homes since they were purchased with our tax dollars it must be public record. Eddie or Captain can you shed some light?

GSTQ,
There are two aspects to the program run by the Governors Office of Storm Recovery. “Buyouts” will be maintained in perpetuity as coastal buffer zones, while properties purchased as “acquisitions” will be eligible for redevelopment in the future in a resilient manner to protect future occupants of this property. The State in consultation with local officials will determine the development of acquired areas to ensure that the properties best serve the future goals of the community. In some cases, the properties will remain undeveloped and be transformed into parks or other non-residential uses, while others will be redeveloped in a resilient manner. (http://stormrecovery.ny.gov/ny-rising-buyout-and-acquisition-programs)

The 60+ properties in Long Beach are in the “acquisition” program and some have been completed and purchased by the NY Housing Trust Fund If you look at their web site (http://www.nyshcr.org/Agencies/HTFC/ ), you will see that entity has the exact opposite ideal of selling anything at Market Value.

A friend of mine has a list of the properties that have been closed on and also the prices the state paid for them, when he forwards them to me I will post them here (unless he asks me not to).

First snow of the year today – come Thursday or Friday, we all will need to set aside $1-2 thousand dollars for wheel and tire repairs, as the gutted Long Beach streets are going to open potholes everywhere, most hadn’t even been fixed since last winter. But hey, weren’t those 2015 calendars pretty?

Never happen, unless they find fools to buy them at that price who don’t know anything about Long Beach. I know some folks who just took a $120K hit to sell their home (fully repaired after Sandy) and sell out of here ASAP to Florida, they see what is coming for Long Beach. And its not just LB, the entire south shore of long island is seeing price declines as the new flood insurance premium structure rolls in.